Busy-Lizzie

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I water the pots one side of the house one day and the other side the next day. I give them a good soak. Flower beds get the sprinkler about once a week each one. Veg garden every 2 -3 days. Last water bill was about £700 , but that's cheaper than joining the local Golf club! The water board told me there is an underground river here that has never dried up, it was full after the wet winter. It was 30° today.

Agree with Wonky. Alan Titchmarch, much as I normally like him, is just over the top with "Love your Garden". I like Charlie's down to earth presenting style. Missed some recently with family staying, looking forward to catching up with i player in Norfolk when we go.

I would like to see the gardens a year later, too.

How else do you pronounce Geum? I thought it was Geeum and I don't have a regional accent.

Daughter and 2 sons, their French OHs, 6 grandchildren and 2 grand nieces have gone. Very quiet here now. They all have 2 proper meals a day - why are they so slim? We have a snack and a meal and far less in the way of biscuits, bread and booze than them.

Sons helped with cooking, had some BBQs. Daughter and DIL helped with washing up. But I spent quite a lot of time in the kitchen.

Really glad that at last I'd managed to get the pool clean enough for them to swim in. It went dark green when we were away in June. The weather was much better than the forecast had said.

But elder daughter and 3 small sons arrive tomorrow. I must go and make beds again and more shopping to be done tomorrow morning. May be another 3 days before I post here again.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles was rescued from deer, a 6" twig! Pink roses also rescued from deer, now in pots.

Nelly Moser

Star Jasmine in a pot

This clematis, John Paul 2,is flowering now in a pot.

Plants don't mind being in pots, so long as they have enough room and they are fed and watered. Deer were eating my roses on the lower lawn that isn't fenced so I dug up the ones that hadn't died and put them in pots and they were much happier.